quotations about eternity
Suppose, after one of our most violent snowstorms, which covers the earth for thousands of miles, one single flake were melted in a thousand years; or if a single beam of the sun's rays stood for a year, and as many years were added as there have been rays flooding the earth since the sun began to shine; or if a single drop of the ocean were exhaled in a million years, till the last drop was taken up; though we cannot conceive the duration of such apparently almost interminable periods, yet though we could, eternity would stretch as far beyond them as if they had not yet begun.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
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attributed, Day's Collacon
I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Dhalgren
In the sight of eternity
I realize my present state
A leaf in the storm of time
Drifting to the final gate
GOLDEN DAWN
"Sub Specie Aeternitatis", The Art of Dreaming
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man and Superman
Many habitually think and act as if there is no eternity.... We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
RANDY ALCORN
Money
We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives.
ALEXANDER MACLAREN
Sermons Preached in Manchester
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more he contemplates them, the former will grow greater and the latter less.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon: Or
I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
"A History of Eternity"
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while
IRON MAIDEN
"If Eternity Should Fail", Book of Souls
The best way to deal with eternity is by living it one day at a time.
ALYSON NOËL
Evermore
Forever is composed of Nows--
'Tis not a different time--
Except for Infiniteness--
And Latitude of Home--
EMILY DICKINSON
"Forever is composed of Nows"
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE
The End of the Affair